Exhibition ends November 7, 2021
Free exhibition entry
Open to public
The 24 Carrot Gardens Project educates children in health, wellbeing, and the importance of lifelong learning. Children learn how to grow, harvest and prepare their culinary creations; set tables for their whole class or community; and create their own beautiful ceramic vessels to eat from.
“Aesthetics are a social justice issue. Here the most disadvantaged kids are able to access beauty and make their own money by creating wonderful things—this shouldn’t be radical, but it is. ”
~ Kirsha Kaechele
The 24 Carrot School Gardens (24CG) program—born in New Orleans in 2007 and then Tasmania in 2014—is all about empowering communities in low-income areas through food education. We work to combat the obesity epidemic and malnutrition in children by empowering kids with the skills to create magnificent, healthy feasts from their own gardens.
What differentiates us from other social programs is the integration of art and lifestyle into every aspect of the project. Children learn to grow, harvest and prepare beautiful culinary creations; they set tables for their class or community and sit together; and they create their own ceramic vessels to eat from with carefully curated glazes and gilding. The presentation of the food platters and table is deeply aesthetic. We believe this artfulness is transformative.
Part of 24 Carrot’s work is to cultivate good design and beauty as a societal value in the next generation. We dissolve class barriers by bringing the beauty and design often reserved for the top 1% of society to the lowest socioeconomic spaces.
Learn more about the event at designtasmania.com.au
Images provided by Design Tasmania
